TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword, Eugénio Pina de Almeida
Introductory Note, Vasco Estrela
Introduction, Luiz Oosterbeek
Cultural mapping as a regeneration tool for sparsely-populated region - Cláudia Carvalho, Hermínia Sol
Un non-lieu turned utopia : Notre-Dame-Des-Landes - Robert Belot
Hi-tech industries and low demographic density territories – resilience and transformation support - Luís Curvelo, Sandra Vilas-Boas Jardim, Nuno Madeira
How can tourism be considered as a response to the rural exodus in alpine regions characterized by a demographic decay (19th-21 th century)? - LaurentTissot
Power and Potestas in Catalonia during the XI Century. How was a lowdensity territory ruled in the Middle Ages? - Adrián Negro Cortés
Village Companies: na integrated approach to landscape management of rural areas - António Louro
Resilience and transformation in indigenous societies in southern Brazil - André Soares
Local and Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Food Systems in Indonesia - Thomas Reuter, GraemeMacrae
A contemporary vision ofnature through Geoheritage - Maria Helena Henriques, Rui Pena dos Reis
Tourism and peace: a tool for global integration and peace - Fabio Carbone
Global security and emerging technologies: governance dilemmas of the technology risks landscape - Renaldas Gudauskas, Saule Jokubauskiene
Sound as a factor of social cohesion among small human groups: some case studies since prehistory till the present times - Fernando Coimbra
The role of the Museum in Mação’s community and intangible heritage - MargaridaMorais, Anabela Borralheiro Pereira, Sara Cura, Luiz Oosterbeek
The Enlightenment and the fight against despotism in Brazil: dreams and nightmares in the Old Regime crisis and nowadays - Luiz Carlos Villalta
Revisiting low density areas: from past opportunities to contemporary disruptions - Luiz Oosterbeek
Luiz Oosterbeek
UNESCO Chairholder in Humanities and Cultural Integrated Landscape Management, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar
Estrada da Serra, Campus da Quinta do Contador, 2300-313 Tomar, Portugal www.ipt.pt
Secretary-General of the International Council of Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH)
Unesco, 1 rue Miollis 75732 Paris Cedex, France www.cipsh.net
